On Monday 25 Jul 2005 10:01 am, chirag radhakrishnan wrote: > Caching-only name servers will not have any records of their own. > When it recevied a request from a client for the first time it will > query on behalf of a client to a nameserver. The next time client > requests the caching server, it will answer from the date in its > cache thus saving bandwidth and improving response.
no - the caching only name server directly queries the root nameservers on the internet (and of course caches the results). The 'only' refers to the fact that the other elements of a dns server do not run - ie, the machine does not have its own internal dns. bsnl, mtnl and vsnl regularly screw up their dns servers, so it is advisable to run ones own as already suggested -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
